Swedish 2016-10-03 har idag beslutat att Nobelpriset i fysiologi eller medicin år 2016 skall tilldelas Yoshinori Ohsumi för hans upptäckter av mekanismer för autofagi Sammanfattning Årets Nobelpristagare har upptäckt och klarlagt maskineriet som styr autofagi, en fundamental process för nedbrytning och återvinning av cellens egna beståndsdelar. Begreppet autofagi härstammar från grekiskans auto som betyder “själv”…

Swedish Presentationstal av professor Nils-Göran Larsson, ledamot av , ledamot av Medicinska Nobelkommittén, 10 december 2016 Eders Majestäter. Eders Kungliga Högheter. Ärade Pristagare. Mina Damer och Herrar. Vi har idag samlats för utdelningen av årets Nobelpris i konserthuset,…

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English 2016-10-03 has today decided to award the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Yoshinori Ohsumi for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy Summary This year’s Nobel Laureate discovered and elucidated mechanisms underlying autophagy, a fundamental process for degrading and recycling cellular components. The word autophagy originates from the Greek words auto-, meaning…

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Scientific background Discoveries of Mechanisms for Autophagy The 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded to Yoshinori Ohsumi for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy. Macroautophagy (“self-eating”, hereafter referred to as autophagy) is an evolutionarily conserved process whereby the eukaryotic cell can recycle part of its own content by sequestering a portion of…

“I may be very, very lucky so far” Telephone interview with Satoshi Ōmura following the announcement of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 5 October 2015. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Chief Scientific Officer of Nobel Media. [Satoshi Ōmura] Hello, is this Satoshi Ōmura. [Adam Smith] Hello, my name is Adam Smith, calling…

Frederick Grant Banting was born on November 14, 1891, at Alliston, Ont., Canada. He was the youngest of five children of William Thompson Banting and Margaret Grant. Educated at the Public and High Schools at Alliston, he later went to the University of Toronto to study divinity, but soon transferred to the study of medicine.…